Theresa May

British PM Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party today, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit, news wires reported. May will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July. May will formally relinquish her leadership in a private letter to her party on Friday, but no official events are planned to mark the day.

British PM Theresa May made a final appeal on Wednesday to opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to back her deal for Brexit, as she faces a likely fourth defeat in parliament, news wires reported. May told Corbyn in a letter that she had shown in a revised deal and asked him to compromise as last chance.

British PM Theresa May will make yet another attempt early next month to have her Brexit deal approved by parliament, news wires reported. She will try to get the deal approved before the summer break, setting a new deadline for her Brexit plan and a potential timetable for her own departure.

British PM Theresa May has carried out “scenario planning” for a second Brexit referendum in case she is forced by parliament to hold one, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday. She is hoping to find a way to get parliament to approve a Brexit plan without another public vote, but talks with the opposition Labour Party on a compromise exit strategy have yet to reach an agreement.

British PM Theresa May on Tuesday met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to seek support for a new Brexit delay while her ministers tried to break the deadlock in London at crisis talks with the opposition Labour Party, news wires reported.

British PM Theresa May on Tuesday will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and with France's President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, just a day before an emergency EU summit on Brexit in Brussels, news wires reported.

British PM Theresa May has written on Friday to European Council President Donald Tusk, asking the EU for a further Brexit delay to 30 June, news wires reported. The prime minister has said she was still hopeful of leaving the bloc earlier and asked for the right for the UK to exit if a withdrawal deal is approved by parliament in that time. But she said the UK would prepare to field candidates in EU elections, in case they do not reach agreement.

British PM Theresa May will ask for another Brexit delay and meanwhile will try to sit down with the opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock over Britain’s EU exit, news wires reported. Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU in a shock referendum result, it is still unclear how, when or if it will ever indeed quit the Union.

Brexit process last week leaned further towards abyss as PM Theresa May failed to sway hardline opponents of her EU divorce deal with an offer to quit, while parliament's bid to agree an alternative fell short, news wires reported. In a last-ditch bid to win over eurosceptic rebels, May told her Conservative lawmakers she would step down if her Brexit deal was finally passed, but many were unmoved and the Northern Irish party said it would reject the deal again.